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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7c4b67b | For privileged people, equality in an unequal world is a bonanza. | Vijay Prashad | ||
| f3d1171 | Racial reasoning conceals these presuppositions behind a deceptive cloak of racial consensus--yet racial reasoning is seductive because it invokes an undeniable history of racial abuse and racial struggle. | Cornel West | ||
| 74d02ab | it has enriched a tiny global elite that has no loyalty to the nation-state. These corporations, if we use the language of patriotism, are traitors. | Chris Hedges | ||
| 414910b | Ur-Fascism grows up and seeks consensus by exploiting and exacerbating the natural fear of difference. The first appeal of a fascist or prematurely fascist movement is an appeal against the intruders. Thus Ur-Fascism is racist by definition. | Chris Hedges | ||
| c824016 | We do have a grand strategy," says Zeese, who was the spokesman for Ralph Nader's 2004 presidential campaign. "Nonviolent movements shift power by attacking the columns that hold the power structure in place. Those columns are the military, police, media, business, workers, youth, faith groups, NGOs, and civil servants. Every time we deal with the police, we have that in mind. The goal is not to hit them, hit them, hit them, and weaken them.. | Chris Hedges | ||
| f97bfbf | The historian Will Durant calculated that there have only been twenty-nine years in all of human history during which a war was not underway somewhere. | Chris Hedges | ||
| 2b864f7 | Scratch the surface of the survivalist cult in the United States and you expose terrified white supremacists. | Chris Hedges | ||
| 548365c | The danger we face does not come from religion. It comes from a growing intellectual bankruptcy that is one of the symptoms of a dying culture. In ancient Rome, as the republic disintegrated and the Caesars were deified, as the Roman Senate became little more than an echo chamber of the emperor, the population's attention was diverted by a series of frontier wars and violent and elaborate spectacles in the arena. The excitement of entertain.. | intellect memes politics religion rome | Chris Hedges | |
| 162fe12 | when human law comes into conflict with what is moral, human law must be defied. | Chris Hedges | ||
| 5e3bed4 | This is the apotheosis of capitalism, the divine sanction of the free market, of unhindered profit and the most rapacious cruelties of globalization. Corporations, rapidly turning America into an oligarchy, have little interest in Christian ethics, or anybody's ethics. They know what they have to do, as the titans of the industry remind us, for their stockholders. They are content to increase profit at the expense of those who demand fair w.. | Chris Hedges | ||
| c66db9f | All you have to do is work hard, obey the rules, and believe in yourself. This myth is disseminated across the political spectrum. It is the essential message peddled by everyone from Oprah and the entertainment industry to the Christian Right and positive psychologists. But this promise, as the masses of underemployed and unemployed are discovering, is a fiction.16 | Chris Hedges | ||
| 6a27c44 | Some 8,000 nonviolent Occupy protesters were arrested across the nation. Not one banker or investor went to jail for causing the 2008 financial meltdown. | Chris Hedges | ||
| adee7c3 | The decision by the ruling elites in ancient Rome--dominated by a bloated military and a corrupt oligarchy, much like the United States--to strangle the vain and idiotic Emperor Commodus in his bath in the year 192 did not halt the growing chaos and precipitous decline of the Roman Empire. Commodus, like a number of late-Roman emperors, and like Trump, was incompetent and consumed by his own vanity. He commissioned innumerable statues of hi.. | Chris Hedges | ||
| d5ff665 | The headlights of parked cars shone through the rain, and the sidewalks extended, empty, into the darkness. Underground, the sewers surged like rivers, and a few blocks away, sirens blared. He was no longer aware of his heart or thoughts, only the image of a sunken face staring up from a well, the paleness rising through the water like polished bone. A ringed hand reached toward it, but as the fingers approached, the face would sink away, i.. | coming-of-age identity literary-fiction literature self-realization | Cory Ingram | |
| aa1e1cd | America was founded on an imagined moral superiority and purity. The fact that dominance of others came, and still comes, from unrestrained acts of violence is washed out of the national narrative. The steadfast failure to face the truth, Baldwin warned, perpetuates a kind of collective psychosis. Unable to face the truth, white Americans stunt and destroy their capacity for self-reflection and self-criticism. They construct a world of self.. | Chris Hedges | ||
| 58e1873 | The New Deal, as Franklin Delano Roosevelt said, saved capitalism. It was put in place because socialists were a strong and serious threat. The oligarchs understood that with the breakdown of capitalism--something I expect we will again witness in our lifetimes--there was a possibility of a socialist revolution. They did not want to lose their wealth and power. Roosevelt, writing to a friend in 1930, said there was "no question in my mind t.. | Chris Hedges | ||
| f344793 | But it would be a mistake to assume that the liberal class was simply seduced by the Utopian promises of globalism. It was also seduced by careerism. Those who mouthed the right words, who did not challenge the structures being cemented into place by the corporate state, who assured the working class that the suffering was temporary and would be rectified in the new world order, were rewarded. They were given public platforms on television .. | liberalism | Chris Hedges | |
| a73155f | Aristotle said that only two living entities are capable of complete solitude and complete separateness: God and beast. Because of this the most acute form of suffering for human beings is loneliness. | Chris Hedges | ||
| b1c49fc | Pozitivisticka psihologija, poput celebrity kulture, nezadrziv nagon da se kupuje i privlacnosti masovne zabave kao sredstva odvracanja pozornosti, pothranjuje se osjecajem nesretnosti sto ga izaziva izolacija i gubitak osjecaja zajednistva. Korporativisticka postavka kako se sreca moze pronaci kroz prilagodbu i podcinjavanje korporativnoj kulturi okrutan je trik zato sto upravo korporativna kultura podrzava i hrani u ljudi tu veliku bolest.. | Chris Hedges | ||
| 5edd634 | La historia no es mas que una sucesion de monstruos o de victimas. O de testigos. | palahniuk rant | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| e8f2a07 | La repeticion es la madre de todos los talentos. | rant repetición talento | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 6fe60e4 | There's terrible evil in the world." "It comes from men," said Holly. "All other elil do what they have to do and Frith moves them as he moves us. They live on the earth and they need food. Men will never rest till they've spoiled the earth and destroyed the animals." | Richard Adams | ||
| 08b350c | Fuck me. I'm a rock star. And all I really wanted was a burrito. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 5f2436c | Hell, boy. At some point, all fathers want to kill their sons. Just like all sons think about killing their old man. They're too much alike or they're not enough alike. It doesn't matter. What's beautiful is that they don't do it. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| cd763fc | It's not necessary to fill every moment with your own voice. Silence terrifies you. You see your own existence as so tenuous that you're afraid you'll pop like a bubble if, at every opportunity, you don't remind the world that you're alive. But wisdom begins in silence. In learning to listen. To words and to the world. Trust me. You won't disappear. And, in time, you might find that you've grown into something unexpected." "What?" | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 4254045 | Mostly, Sub Rosas are the people regular people aren't supposed to know about. It's not that we don't like you; it's that you have a habit of burning us at the stake when you notice us. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 16b4365 | And his first name. Jeffrey spelled Geoffrey. Never trust a Geoffrey. Either they're pretentious pricks or bitter that the family spelled their name funny. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| d0e3e90 | Like a man once said: 'I'm not afraid of death. I just don't want to be there when it happens.'" The" | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 1edf6ec | The only way I can attract more attention is if I was towing a Spanish galleon full of half-naked cheerleaders with flare guns. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 5d97c57 | Every day I walk down Hollywood Boulevard and see civilians making themselves crazy worrying about the meetings they're late for or did they put the rent check in the mail or is their ass starting to sag and I think, "I've seen the creaky clockwork that turns the stars and planets. I've gotten drunk with the devil and body-slammed angels. I've seen the Room of Thirteen Doors at the center of the universe. I know the taste of my own blood as.. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| c2f857c | She'd [Allegra] look like Foxy Brown's little sister, except her head is SHAVED SMOOTH. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| f31d90a | The lucky among us might get the same deal as Dysmas. Dysmas was one of the thieves crucified next to Christ. When he asked for forgiveness, Christ said, 'Today you will be with me in paradise.' " Candy" | Richard Kadrey | ||
| f2154b1 | That's for me, isn't it? I'm going to Hell." "Don't feel so bad. It beats Fresno." | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 2dd9900 | Kasabian is still shrieking like a banshee, which is pretty good for a guy with no lungs. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| d0df4c7 | I guess I don't have a choice." "Of course you have a choice," she says. "They're just not very good choices." | Richard Kadrey | ||
| e71c2bf | They were the understanding eyes of kindly folk who burned witches alive to save their souls. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| ca9fc1b | Every time stupid rich people get ripped off, it makes them feel better about hating poor people. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| a563083 | You murder someone at the Ice Capades and the place goes apeshit. You blow someone's head off in a war zone, people step over the body and have a snack. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 0d2434f | Fear is like curling up under a warm blanket for some people, especially the rich. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 10d8286 | It's part of why I came to Los Angeles. My real work. I kill the dead. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| bb980ca | If you ever see me in a matching T-shirt with a woman--any woman--shoot me. Okay?" Morty nodded. "You didn't have to ask. I'd have done it on principle." "Thank you." "I know a cry for help when I see it." | Richard Kadrey | ||
| cb0913b | LAUREL CANYON PERCHED DIRECTLY ABOVE LOS ANGELES, one of the most expensive collections of winding hills and valleys in the country. Luckily, there were roads that twisted up and down the tortured ridges, or the only things that would have been there were hippies, backpackers, prairie dogs, and the occasional mountain lion dining on the aforementioned hippies, backpackers, and prairie dogs. Unfortunately, because of those roads and the bill.. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 1b7dd17 | The downside to jackrabbit reflexes is that while they get you out of the way of obvious and imminent danger, when you're going forty miles an hour on your front wheel, those reflexes will simply launch you into the air like a squirrel on a land mine. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 26ba4ea | Fuck this place and fuck your games. This is where you first failed us. You gave us minds and told us not to think. You gave us curiosity and put a booby-trapped tree right in front of us. You gave us sex and told us not to do it. You played three-card monte with our souls from day one, and when we couldn't find the queen, you sent us to Hell to be tortured for eternity. That was your great plan for humanity? Whatever | Richard Kadrey |